[ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. >>> he's going to be one of the most consequential secretaries of the modern era and he's out of a job this morning. a deep dive into tim geithner's legacy, still being written after four years, packed with crisis and controversy. he was tapped by president elect obama -- a lot of people assumed mccain would have tapped him as treasury secretary if he had won. he was faced with an economy in freefall. the obama administration passed the tax package. on "meet the press" in the spring of 2009, geithner said the government couldn't afford to wait. >> we can leave it as it is, hope banks will earn their way out of this process over time and i am certain that would create the risk of a deeper, longer recession. again, the classic lesson in financial crises is governments wait to act, they wait too late and that means more damage to the economy, higher deficit in the future, greater cost for the taxpayer. we're not prepared to take that approach. >> it seemed like eac